SQUIRES KNOCKED OUT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 647, 26 October 1909, Page 5

SQUIRES KNOCKED OUT.

..'■'.".' T - "—♦„, ■■■..:•.. ■.;'. ■LANG WINS IN.LAST ROUND. . (By Telegraph.-Prc6B,: A6sociation.-CopyrisliU; :-..'■'.(Kcc. October 20, 1.5 a.m.) ';'...■■";': Melbourne, October 25. • . ■ The fight between Lang (champion) and' Squire?, for tho heavy-weight championship of Australia, dr<*w'. a big house., '. .'•' : , Aftera good fight,;Zang knocked Squires out in the twentieth round. ■■}■ •:.> r ... .''., ; No details. are available. V ' l [Tho.'. contest was limited to 20 rounds^,: so tho knock-out came "at the eleventh hour;'' A _', Sydney .Reforeo " .writer.says: " Alth6ugh this event has.been brought forward.'a weekrNovomber. 1 to October 25—both men declare themselves to'be in. a* thoroughly fit condition to. fight, and those who hava Been them at work endorse that. view. ' It 'was thought that Squires was putting on weight and would: enter'the ring at about 13st., but ho tells mo he will, woigh'about 125t.'61b., which was as. heavy, as he over. was whon. he. ;won all his big matches in ..tho'oity. Squires thinks- he was:very unfortunate to bo' beaten by Lang, at the Sydney, Stadium, as he believes ho almost had tho Melbournite settled in tho oarlior rounds, but had not.sufficient strength left to finish him. He believes he is fighting in quite his old form again; and, to use,his own language, he thinks he. is sure to "knock that bloke" . before many rounds have ,'transpired when they come togotheron tho 25th jnstj . : '-,